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"Nobody seems to admit it, but Php, Ruby, Python, and Javascript are the same language"!!! That's a big claim and I bet the author doesn't know any of these la

• alexandercrohde 9y ago
  I'm the author, I know all of them. Php, Javascript, and Python the best. Php well enough to have read add patched the source code. If you'd like to explain what you think some fundamental differences are between them I'm all ears. For any line of python, there's a line or two of PHP to accomplish the same thing (same with javascript). However you cannot say this for Scala vs Java for example.
  • babyrainbow 9y ago
    >For any line of python, there's a line or two of PHP to accomplish the same thing (same with javascript). Python decorators? What is the counterpart of that in Php?
    • alexandercrohde 9y ago
      The syntactic-sugar form isn't there with the @, but it can still be done in a single line. https://coderpad.io/RWTYEFY3 https://coderpad.io/RWTYEFY3 <?php // DEFINE DECORATOR $decoratorFunction = function($orig) { print "decorating $orig"; return function() use ($orig) { $params = func_get_args(); print "\nCalling a function with: " . count($params) . " arguments"; return call_user_func_array($orig, $params); }; }; // DEFINE A FUNCTION TO DECORATE function someFunction($a, $b) { return $a + $b; } // CREATE NEW DECORATED FUNCTION(s) $decorated = $decoratorFunction("someFunction"); $decorated2 = $decoratorFunction("printf"); echo "\noutput: " . $decorated(1,2); echo "\nOutput: " . $decorated2("\n%s", "cool"); }
      • babyrainbow 9y ago
        >The syntactic-sugar form isn't there with the @.. But those things are differences, right? Certain languages makes certain things easy and idiomatic. The differences in languages are all about that...
        • alexandercrohde 9y ago
          So there are two options: 1. Join the languages (so PHP would get that syntatic sugar too) [or preferably never have so many in the first place] 2. Be where we are now, where we have redundant libraries, frameworks, languages, package-managers, version idiosyncrasies, and IDEs for mere syntactic sugar.
          • babyrainbow 9y ago
            Eh? Two options for what? I was talking about how languages are different...